THE ALL-TRUTH OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH: THE CRITICAL RECOGNITION
As we near the end of this critical Discourse, the question must be asked: Where, among all the claimants to The Spirit of Truth, is any associated teaching or religious discourse that could be termed All of THE TRUTH? Where is the great and detailed knowledge that must be that very thing? Where is it?
Islam claims to have it, as do Christians and Jews. Of course, there is a certain degree of knowledge in the exalted books of the three religions from out of which we can get a basic sense of who we are and where we might come from etc., and from which we can also read relevant prophecy. A broad ‘feel’ of the vastness of Creation can also be sensed if we are able to extrapolate upward even mentally, from the incomprehensible, material immensity of just the night sky “down here”, into the non-material “many mansions of the Father”.
For example, in terms of that mind-blowing “physical” reality, a correct understanding of the Bible --- the Revelation to be precise --- actually gives us the true “extent” of the universes; something that cosmological scientists are unaware of. Whilst it is only the Bible that offers this ‘expansion’ of knowledge, it is the All-Truth now on earth that elucidates the “detail” of that immensity.
[See the later, relevant Discourse on the Universes and understand what modern-day cosmologists do not: ---- Isaac Newton’s “Plan of The World”.]
Since the whole of The Truth must stand alone and true to Itself in Divine Power and Purpose, the claims and counter-claims of the many religions and faiths --- the burden of which humanity groans under --- clearly reveals to any “logical-thinking person” that beneath the guise of great reverence and worship to God, religions simply play with their versions of Truth. Earthly power, wealth and adherent-convenience and compliance are the usual “reasons” that drive and produce the “final product”.
Because the centuries-long religious direction has been primarily generated from human aspiritual intellectualism, a strong element of religious ego is ever-present. In short, it is all just religiosity. If that were not the case, they would all agree over what Divine/Spiritual Truth actually is, and, moreover, its concomitant translation would flow from it into our collective human world of everyday reality. We all know what that reality really is; and it is not anything spiritually-ennobled.
As we have previously said and reinforce again here, the unfortunate difficulty about Scripture and Verse in any religion is that it does not give the detail of every nuance of every question that humankind has ever asked. Therefore, what is interpreted by the scholars of a given religion may certainly be correct in some respects, for insofar as the religion itself is concerned, usually quite brilliant analyses and suppositions of what is being conjectured emerge, but that is as far as it goes.
An actual All-Truth must surely be able to give full and detailed explanations of everything that is possible for human beings to know, and, of course, IT does; for only the true and actual ALL-TRUTH can!
Hence the Title of this first Discourse --- THE COMING OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH --- Proclaims the long-portended critical Event for the human race. But the world believes it knows better, and so rejects. Unfortunately, because global humanity clearly “does not believe”, the ramifications of that “blind intransigence” are the horrendous and almost unbelievable misery, bloodshed and suffering that impact global societies on an almost hourly basis today.
If we track back 10 years, 20 years, 30 years; most people who lived through those decades would ‘probably’ aver that, overall, the world was a much better and safer place over that time period. Now, it is very obviously more dangerous than it has ever been, and, among a number of tragedies, the year 2016 [the start of this writing] saw a serious upsurge in religion-fuelled violence.
What has changed? What has happened to bring about a seemingly unstoppable wave of on-going and deadly violence, to name just one thing that is difficult to comprehend, let alone the many other truly evil practices now commonplace? It is as though ‘the world’ has suddenly become virtually ungovernable. Because so much has happened so quickly, leaving even jaded News commentators searching for descriptive superlatives to attempt to make some sense of it all, we could be forgiven for perhaps believing that some kind of “causal pressure” has been brought to bear to act as a ‘catalyst’ to actually initiate change across the whole spectrum of human endeavour and behaviour.
The greatest and most menacing change for global societies is clearly in religion, namely religious intolerance, and almost blind hatred. However, it is not simply just the kind of change occurring there, but the rapid acceleration of it. Both the reason for and answer why can be found in the two words, “causal pressure”, which is forcing serious change and, ultimately, hard resolution.
In our short journey thus far, we have examined many different facets of a/the Spirit of Truth and His All-Truth. Whilst we in this early stage have ‘Proclaimed His actual Coming’ and the fact that the great prophecies of warning are thereby fulfilled, it was not our intention to reveal so in the very first part of the Work, Ordinarily, one would prepare all Discourses for a final revelation closer to the end, yet that is not how it has proceeded.
However, in accordance with the format laid out by the “Guides-- Unseen” for this Work, we will name Him in the early part of it so from then on you will have revelation upon revelation, knowledge and more knowledge, detail and more detail piled on to you. Thus will the fact of His arrival and All-Truth be proven, for no religion or earthly science can give you what you will be led to in this Work --- if you wish it. In that knowledge lies the catalyst and power of the “causal pressure” we earlier alluded to.
Despite the fact that we have not yet named HIM, what is the most revealing about what His Name is and thus Who He Is can actually be inferred or known from Bible Scripture and prophecy. In the long and tortured religious history of man, only one person; we shall say that again --- only one person --- has ever named HIM correctly. For Christianity, even Jesus did not give direct name to HIM. [We shall let that singular Prophet speak in his own, commensurate early Discourse.]
Let’s now look at what “The Spirit of Truth”, in grammatical terms, really means. Firstly, in reference to He, as the personal pronoun, He, therefore, cannot be anything other than an actual person. Moreover, in order to be that “Spirit of Truth”, He must have to be absolutely connected with the Very Source of Truth Itself in some way or other. If not, then there cannot possibly be any All-Truth reality here. We cannot have it both ways. So, if The Spirit of Truth originates from that Very Source then He must inherently-possess the “Whole of The Truth”.
Secondly, in words surely plain enough for anyone to understand: The Spirit of Truth as a Title and associated Being meaning “The Truth of All Things” and thus “The Truth and Law of God”; must therefore have to be an actual “Part of God”. There is no equivocation here. Consider:
‘And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.’ (Genesis 1:2).
Now we know that Islam does not necessarily accept the Creation-story as depicted in Genesis; yet, whilst the Koran notes the fact of Creation in quite a number of Verses, there is surprisingly little detail of the actual process. For example:
“And We created not the heavens and the earth and what is between
them for sport.” (21:16).
“And We created not the heavens and the earth and what is between
them but with truth”. ... (15:85).
“We created not the heavens and the earth and all between them save
with truth and for an appointed term”. ... (46:3 M.M. Ali all.)
Despite a wide spread of verses on this subject, the few quoted here read much the same as the others; but we will revisit the question of Creation far more comprehensively in its own later Discourse. For from the Biblical account, it is abundantly clear that it was not God Himself Who ‘moved upon the face of the waters’, but “HIS SPIRIT” --- “of TRUTH”: Thus, “HIS WILL” --- as a “PART” of HIM.
Reader: For the purposes of this immediate discussion, what do you think --- i.e., for your own personal illumination? We will revisit this crucial aspect in more detail in the next few Discourses.
In the meantime, insofar as the “Battle for Ownership” is concerned, the truly strange thing about this very real “behind-the-scenes” conflict is that on the Islamic side of the equation --- by virtue of the overriding religious zeal of Muslims globally –- adherents of that religion would be far more aware of the fundamental necessity to “lay claim” to even just the concept of a “Spirit of Truth” --- never mind “ownership” of the same --- than would Christians. On a simple numbers basis, it is doubtful that many Christians would understand the critical importance of a “Spirit of Truth” in the same way that Muslims do. So, in terms of relative positions “in the ring”, so to speak, global Christendom is way behind on ‘points’.
Not that it will mean anything in the end, for this present clash is more or less a continuation of what has gone before. The difference today is that the “spiritual component within the conflict” is actually “powering” the final throes of the struggle. For following in its train, the ‘spiritual outworking’ thereof must eventually translate to inevitable and serious societal consequences; exactly as we observed in 2016 when we began this Work. It will not improve, and it cannot be stayed. The inevitable outcome is now “locked in place”. We should not be surprised, however, for it has been very clearly signalled for centuries; and now we have ‘all arrived’ for the final reckoning.
Of course, there have been uncounted numbers of wars and battles over religious “rightness”, but today simple human demographics now ensure that debate, argument, and division between religions must inherently harbour the potential for greater conflict than was ever possible in the past. We do not mean --- at least not yet and hopefully never --- battles on the scale of the Crusades, for example. No: Current demographics just mean that there are many more millions of dedicated adherents of the primary religions on earth; all with the potential to “break-out” of the current constraints of their respective ‘religions’ and wreak destructive havoc on those not of ‘their’ faith. Even though that is currently occurring in the present, it has thankfully not yet translated into the numbers that could be possible --- though it may.
So, notwithstanding the fact that inter-religion and even sectarian violence and killing has been commonplace for centuries, the prospect for wider-scale turmoil has never been greater. It will only take one push too many from someone, some group, somewhere, and the probability of an explosive backlash will be impossible to contain. Yet, as we previously explained, the interesting contradiction of exactly that scenario is that an unseen force, or pressure, now being steadily applied to all the affairs of men, exactly fulfils an express and “Divinely-ordained” purpose; that of “forcing” all simmering and underlying tensions to eventually break to the surface for final resolution.
The human tragedy is, however, that there was once a time where we could have chosen peaceful dialogue and mutual understanding, but we are trending more strongly to greater recrimination and its commensurate increase in hate. It will ultimately lead to the “destruction of all peace”.
When we observe the horrific spate of terror killings by all manner of religious extremists across the globe, but more particularly by followers of Islam/ Mohammed with the avowed aim of destroying all so-called ‘infidels’ or non- believers so that only a world of Islam remains, it is almost a latter-day Crusade in reverse. So, the question of Who should be placed Highest needs to be resolved from more than just a simplistic and emotional human/religious aspect. And whether accepted as such, Islam and Christianity, two of the world’s three monotheistic religions holding diametric views on which historical ‘religious personage’ and associated ‘teaching’ will be the measure that humanity is supposed to finally embrace, are now inextricably locked in a “spiritual” almost “life-and-death” struggle over that crucial question.
A Book of the Bible that Islam has had to take serious note of --- the Book of John (for John 16, the Coming of the Spirit of Truth) --- also contains the clear Scripture: “He will bring the judgement...” Along with the erroneous belief that Mohammed was He, does that “Scripture of Judgement” feed into the “religious head-space” of Islamic terror groups responsible for horrific killings and beheadings in the name of Allah? Have they determined that they are the lawful instrument for the judgement of all other religions and belief-systems, and are simply carrying out associated instructions?
If there is no reasoned and logical outcome to these questions, then the ‘hard’ indoctrination of increasing numbers of ‘Jihadist fighters’ can only bring about the deaths of many more people who are ‘not of the faith’. Or there develops a serious backlash in the mould of perhaps the emergence of another “Charles the Hammer”, with a resultant and ultimate final “religious conflagration” against Islam.
Christian groupings accept such a scenario anyway in the concept of ‘Armageddon’, the so-called ‘final battle’ to be fought on the plains of Megiddo. When all the forces of good and evil have assembled, Jesus will apparently appear, and then defeat the “dark side” and “the good people” will live “happily ever after”. This ‘non-event’ scenario that millions upon millions are pinning their “religious” hopes on actually reads like a script from a ‘Marvel Comics’ Hollywood movie adaptation.
We will state it one last time in this first and most important Discourse: It will not happen. You have all missed the Event, and He really did: “Come like a thief in the night.” [We will hammer this point home in unrelenting elucidation not just in in its relevant Discourse, but wherever necessary throughout.]
But here’s the rub: The very reason why The Spirit of Truth had to come to humanity was to give us the chance and the means whereby catastrophic global societal collapse could be avoided. How can what should be a simple equation not be ‘seen’ or understood by a group of earth-creatures (humans), who have the ability to compose great symphonies, erect amazing monuments and structures, develop wonderful cures and enact incredible surgical ‘miracles’, and yet get it so badly wrong, to the point where serious international “talk” is singularly-focussed on how we “might” sort out our global mess? Well, to coin a today phrase: “It ain’t rocket science.” The “Great Prophet”, Isaiah, foresaw that dilemma for this time, our time, 2,800 years ago.
For behind all the world’s problems is just one quite stupid human trait, one of great conceit to begin with, and arrogance and ego to end on. We hear it over and over again. Words to the effect: “I have my truth.” “This is my truth.” There is also the collective, and the religions: “We have our truth, we don’t need anyone else’s”.
In short, everyone wants ‘the world’ to be ‘their way’, with the answers and solutions to be ‘their way’.
Of course, that is just plain dumb, it simply cannot be. In addition, the on- going stupidity of it all is that if you ask anyone if they believe that such a scenario can work, the answer is the same every time: ‘No, it can’t work’. Yet despite that logical and correct recognition, no one will give up “their truth”. That is our senseless and ultimately, “spiritually brain-dead”, human problem. Very unfortunately, it can only be fixed one way!
To that clarification then, Bible Scripture 8:10 holds the key. However, that will be explored and clarified in its necessary fullness later.